Stories Quotes - Page 216

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

When I was in Boy Scouts, back in the day, we'd tell stories around the campfire. That's why I love movies. It's literally you and your friends, telling stories around a campfire, whatever they may be.

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.

Show more interest in their story than your own.

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.